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Lylette Pizarro

Founder and Co-Managing Partner

Lylette founded Influence Media with the vision of bridging the gap between creators and capital. In 2018, she worked with Morgan Stanley to secure bridge financing for Influence Media which was used to partner and acquire the works of some of today’s leading songwriters, including Jeff Bhasker, Shane McAnally, and Ben Rector. In 2019, Influence Media successfully exited the bridge delivering the expected return to bridge investors and secured new funding and additional commitments in capital, including a strategic partnership with Warner Music Group.

Prior to founding Influence Media Partners, Lylette was a partner at RPM GRP. Under her leadership, her team navigated music and entertainment strategy, music licensing, content and talent acquisition and rights management for Fortune 50 companies like PepsiCo, Apple, Verizon, and LVMH to name a few.

Lylette worked closely with C-Suite and Senior Leadership for these companies on high profile music and entertainment strategy and investments, including brokering and executing multi-faceted programs for talent partnerships with Beyoncé, Katy Perry, Kevin Hart, DJ Khaled, Michael Jackson Estate and David Bowie.

Her career has also included rights management, artist management and film marketing. Her work has garnered awards from prestigious organizations in the process including NAACP, AdColor, International Creativity, Davey and Clios.

Lynn Hazan

Co-Managing Partner

Lynn joined Influence in 2019 to partner with Lylette to secure additional capital commitments and to operationalize the underwriting, management and optimization of the portfolio.

For the past 20 years, Lynn was an integral member of the C-Suite at Sony Music Entertainment. With roles across front line music business and distribution, Lynn’s efforts were critical to the development and success of some of today’s most globally renowned artists including Future, Camila Cabello, DJ Khaled, Travis Scott, among others.

Throughout Lynn’s tenure at Sony, the company experienced milestones in success as she drove financial accountability and operational excellence in three separate divisions starting with RCA Records, then RED Music and most recently, Epic Records. In her role as the General Manager & Chief Financial Officer of Epic Records, she worked alongside LA Reid and Sylvia Rhone, two of the music industry’s most iconic executives, to successfully drive continuous increased revenue, profitability, and market share.

Lynn is a recognized industry veteran who has deftly forged relationships with some of the most powerful names in music. Her work has garnered her four-time recognition as one of the Top Women in the Music Business by Billboard Magazine.

Jon Jashni

Founding Advisor

Jon is a media investor and content producer who operates through his investment fund Raintree Ventures, Inc. He has recently served as a strategic advisor to Morgan Stanley, Evolution Media, Endeavor Content, Bonfire Game Studios, Mass Appeal, Dragonfire Capital and Jaunt VR. Over the course of his career Jon has been associated with the creation and monetization of content that has generated over $6.7 billion in gross revenue.

From 2006 to 2016, Jon was President and Chief Creative Officer of Legendary Entertainment, and during his tenure the company evolved from a film-financing entity into a leading, diversified, multi-platform media company acquired by Wanda in 2016. Prior to joining Legendary, he was President of Hyde Park Entertainment, a production and financing company with partnerships at 20th Century Fox, Disney and MGM. Earlier, Jon was a senior executive at 20th Century Fox and was partnered with music industry power broker Irving Azoff at the Warner Bros.-based Giant.

He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Producers Guild of America and serves as a Trustee Emeritus of the American Film Institute.

Rene McLean

Founding Advisor

Rene McLean is a music executive, entrepreneur and Billboard “Branding Power Player” (2019) who has spent more than two decades innovating and implementing methods to amplify and connect through music. He founded and leads the culture and tech forward music company SLANG, focused on providing new or developing artists with tools to grow and brands a pathway to connect with consumers. In recent years, he launched a fully integrated distribution system to help artists share their music and collect earnings across more platforms and oversaw his team’s negotiation and execution of multi-million-dollar partnerships for top brands like Pepsi and Belvedere Vodka.

Prior to launching SLANG, Rene began his career in the ‘90s at leading labels like Virgin, RCA, Elektra and Interscope Records, where he played a pivotal role in the early marketing strategies for now-iconic acts like Eminem, Missy Elliott and Busta Rhymes. He also helped pioneer the modern field-marketing model at various labels, which became a guiding principle for RPM, the music marketing & management firm he founded in 2000.

With RPM, Rene quickly established himself as an independent visionary. He consulted with the likes of Pharrell Williams, Timbaland & Swizz Beatz on their careers, created the tastemaking Power Summit (which Jay-Z, Alicia Keys and Kanye West used to launch new projects) and eventually expanded the company’s scope into cultural marketing with blue-chip brand clients like Pepsi, Xbox, GM, HBO & MTV.

But the expansion didn’t stop there. Utilizing the same forward-thinking vision that he applied to record-label marketing, Rene opened RPM MSC, a new kind of music company for a new music industry. By centralizing all the elements of a label, management, bookings & media- creating a nimble, full-immersive company that specialized in guiding new talent to astonishing success. This was perhaps exemplified by the discovery of LMFAO, taking the duo from Internet obscurity to GRAMMY-nominated, global sensation with multiple Hot 100 No. 1 hits.